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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 86 38 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 50 2 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 41 7 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 40 20 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 36 10 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 31 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 27 3 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 24 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. 14 10 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 6 Browse Search
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n oracle, that in sixty days all the troubles of the country would be at an end. The result shows that he has not the most ordinary sagacity. He did not pretend to give a reason for the prediction, and, in making it, prove himself a more mouthing pretender. Yet it is on such a man as this that the North relies to take it safely and triumphantly through such an exigency as the present ! If he had been a statesman he would have pursued at the beginning of these troubles the course of a Webster or a Clay. He would have poured oil on the troubled waters; he would have applied emollients instead of irritants to the inflamed passions of the people. This would at least have deferred the evil day. But he did not comprehend intelligently the interests of his own section. He did not perceive that delay of an open rupture must continue to add to Northern strength and to Southern weakness. He could not understand that such a proclamation as that of Lincoln would divide the country for
d the supposed position of the enemy. Gen. Cadwallader and staff rode in the advance of the column. In the affair at Hainesville, the other day, Gen. Patterson commanded in person. From Western Virginia. Buckhannon, July 8. --A dispatch received here says that Gen. McClellan's column is within one mile of Laurel Hill, where the Confederates, under Gen. Garland, are posted. A battle is probable within twenty-four hours. Buckhannon, July 8.--A courier has arrived from Webster who reports that four companies of the 19th Ohio Regiment at Glenville, about forty miles distant to the southwest, are besieged by a picket regiment of Virginians and fifteen hundred militia, under O. Jennings Wise. Col. Tyler, of the 7th Regiment, has marched to their relief from Weston, and the 10th Regiment, Col. Lytle, has just gone forward to their rescue from this place. Troops under Gen. M'Dowell. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes: There are now